News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
NEWS ITEM S,

Thirty-three- new hotels are to be
erected in Los Angeles county, Cal,
this season. They will cost from
100000 to 100000 each.
Mr.. Blaine is ill at Fort Gibson,
threatened with pneumonia. The doc
tors pronounce it a case of bronchial
catarrh, with fever of a remitting
type.
Five state legislatures have voted to
submit to the voice of the people con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of intoXicants as
beverage.
- Louis Gaudin, aged 100 years,
who, it is said, was never sick until
week before his death, died at Woon-
socket, r. l., on the 9TH inst. His
wife died two years ago at the age of
102. Gaudin's mother lived to be 108.
Mrs. Mary Savage, of Greenwood,
Mass, has daughter, granddaughter,
great grand daughter, and great great
granddau9 liter, all residing in Nor
way. 1t is an unbroken line of fe-
males of five generations. Their ages
are as follows First, "a A; second, Sc
third, Sc; fourth, II; fifth s months.
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, the rich
est woman in the country, died at her
residence in New York on Monday of
last week. She leaves fortune esti-
mated as high as $20,000,000. 1t is
supposed that she has left large sum
to the city. Her residence at New
port, r. l., is one of the finest in that
beautiful resort.
Near State Springs, Calhoun county,
Miss, an abundance of hard coal has
been found. The boring of wells and
sinking of shafts show that almost
the entire surface of the county for
miles around is underlaid by stra-
tum of coal varying in thickness from
five to thirty feet. 1t has been tried
in FORCES and found equal to Pittsburg
coal for welding iron. Some mills
are now using it to run furnaces.
On the 1st of April there was in the
United States treasury $445, 17O,2
After deducting the gold and silver
held for the redemption of outstand-
ing certificates, the reserve fund fer
the payment of the greenbacks, and
the fractional currency mot applica-
BILE for debt reduction" the net treasu-
ry surplus on the 1st of April was
S21, 1855, 2S3. During March a redac-
ton of S12,606, 467 was made in the
national debt.
The Chesapeake nail works, en-
ploying about 100 men, and Lochiel
& Paxton. furnaces, at Harrisburg,
Pa, have ceased operations until the
railroad and transportation companies
reach some conclusion regarding freight
rates. The mill owners say they can
not continue business under the inter
State act as interpreted now. Several
bundled men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
Jennie Jeffrey Harrison, Gypsev
queen of the several tribes who sum-
mer in the Miami Valley, was buried
at Dayton, Ohio, April s. Her death
occurred in Mississippi last Deem
her, and the body was embalmed and
laid in the vault at Dayton to await
the gathering of tribes. The funeral
cortege was singularlv attractive, and
the scenes at the grave were weird.
Representatives of tribes were pres
ent from distant points.
The post-office department officials
are having prepared series of new
designs of embossed stamps for
stamped envelopes of the one, two,
four and five cent denominations. The
head of Franklin has been selected
for the one cent stamp, and the heads
of Washington, Jackson and Grant
for the two, four and five cent denom-
nations respectively. The general
design of the new series is uniform.
On the upper side and following the
oval shape of the stamp, is the legend
Omitted States Postage" instead of
"U. S. postage" as on the stamp now
in use. The new series will be ready
for issue by May l. The border of
the one cent adhesive stamp has been
slightly modified to conform to the
design of the two cent stamp.
Joseph Howard, Jr., well known for
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